He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle. — Jack Vance

I may be called upon to address the company. No one will listen, of course, which is just as well, since I have nothing to say.

He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.

The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.